Rebecca U.
1/24/08
this is my frist day of the two week liquid diet before my surgery. it is 9:30am so far so good. i think by tomorrow or even next week i will be very hungry. i am trying to think of all the stuff i can drink to get me by till i can start eating solids again which i believe will be around March 10th three weeks after my surgery. it will be a big challenge but i am up for it. anything to loose wieght so my back, knee's and hip will stop hurting. at this point of my life i hope that my boobs get smaller too when i loose the weight so my shoulders would stop hurting too. i have not told my family about this yet, i will only tell them when they start asking questions. two years ago i had to have emergency back surgery, i had no choice in the matter. since that day i have wanted this surgery but my husband and family was against it. so i left my husband this past May 2007 and i have started the process of the surgery and have not included any one untill last week when i ask my best friend i she and her mom could help me out on getting to the hospital the day of and day after surgery because they don't want you to drive. after they both scolded me for about a day, then they decided to help me. (i have known my best freind for 25 years) i am still having to figure out if i really need more than a week off for this surgery. my job i have is sitting in a cubical all day, why stay home when i can work, i can sit around at home just as much as at work. wls for dummies says eight weeks, but i can not believe that, i had back surgery and was unable to walk and was told to take eight weeks off for that and found myself so bored that i managed to drive to work to just get out of the house and was back to work a week early.
1/28/08
This past weekend my best friend called and talked to me about what a big mistake i am making. i still think that my life will end too soon if i don't do this. my back pain is back, if i move just right i buckle in pain and my knee's are hurting. i have been on the liquid diet for five days now and i am truley feeling sick to my stomach with drink the protien shakes. the ones you have to mix don't taste right but the target brand compared to slimfast taste good. i have not lost any weight if anything i think i have gained 5 pounds, UGH! i could really go for a pizza right now, my work is having davanni's delivered and i can't have anything. i should have taken 2 weeks before the surgery off just to sleep through the hunger. i hope that after the surgery i don't feel hungry.
2/14/08
Happy V day. UGH!
I am back to work, my job is not that demanding. my surgery went very well and would have been back to sooner but i got another sinus infection. i have had sinus infections all winter, i am soooooooo ready for spring. it is a some what of a good thing that i am not hungry like i use to be, but i also i am not getting the right amount of water i need in. i must have thought that i didn't need to get a lot of water in, but you realy need to get a lot of water in or you get tired, and feel sick and cold. well ok maybe the cold feeling is because it is bloody cold this winter. as for getting in my required fulids while on the 2 week post op liquids, that is not to bad. tomorrow my work is having olive garden delivered. my surgery seems to be at poor timing, we don't get free lunch this often. it was just 3 weeks ago we got davanni's now olive garden. i guess you choose your battles, i am on a new road in life and life throws road blocks, you just have to turn and go around them. i wieghed myself today 232, not bad, i have not been this low in over 5 years. i can't wait to start fitting into some old clothes i have that i never got to wear because ,when you buy it you say, some day i will fit in it and that some day is coming near. YA! i am trying to find a picture that will let me down load to my profile so that i have a face to my name.
4/01/08
Happy April Fool's Day.
I weighed myself in today at 214, not to bad for almost two months out. It has been seven years since I have been this low in weight. I have not had any big problems; the only thing I have had trouble with is really dry meat. It hurts really bad going down even if I chew it more than juicy meat. I still can’t get a picture to load correctly for my avatar; I am going to try working more on that later this month. I finally got internet at home so I will be able to check my emails, I am excited about that. I get to wear clothes that have been packed up since 2001. I went shopping when Sears had their 70% off sale and got clothes in size 18, 16, and 14. I paid less than half of what I paid last year when I was to big and had to buy clothes it to fit. I have been in a lot of pain, my back has gotten bad. I believe I have muscle pain through out most of my body. I have pain in my knees so it has been hard to exercise at all. I am not much of a journal writer but I will try to keep better updates so others reading can get an idea how my surgery went for me.
8/21/08
I am dowm to 182 and doing ok. I have a lot of back pain, i need to start exercising. I work at Target part time which seems full time when i get more than 20 hours a week in. That is alot of walking. But I know if i did exercise in addition to working i would lose weight faster and be more toned. I have some work to do on my house they I maybe able to start exercising, plus I am cutting back my hours at Target to have more time to exercise and clean my house. Being at 184 I am size 14 which I have not been this small since about the sixth grade, that was a very long time ago. I am looking forward to being smaller than my sister, she has always been smaller than me.
